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It's clear that consolidation is finally starting to happen in mobile health.
In the third quarter of 2013, MobiHealthNews reported an unprecedented number of mobile and digital health acquisitions in a single quarter -- five. Depending on where you count Humana's acquisition of Healthrageous (which we reported on October 1st), the fourth quarter either matched or surpassed that...
1EQ, maker of a health information organizing tool for patients and providers, raised $1.1 million from Kensington Partners and the Ense Group. The first $200,000 was raised in February to get their minimum viable product out, the company said, and the rest was raised recently to create a scalable product and push this product into hospitals and clinics.
The company's platform integrates genomic...
Chicago-based Retrofit raised $5 million in a round led by Cambia Health Solutions with additional funding from Draper Fisher Jurveston. This brings the company's total funding to $15.7 million.
Cambia Health Solutions invested in Retrofit because of the company's personalized and tech-enabled model, the company said.
"Retrofit empowers consumers to make healthy lifestyle choices that are...
Maxwell Health, a web- and mobile-based "employee benefits operating system" has raised $6 million, bringing its total first round funding to $8 million. The round was led by existing investor Vaizra Investments, with contributions from new investor Catalyst Ventures and other previous investors Tribeca Venture Partners, Serious Change, Lerer Ventures, and BoxGroup, as well as undisclosed angels...
Chicago-based higi, a digital health company that powers health kiosks in thousands of retail locations in the US, acquired New York and Seattle-based challenges and rewards platform Earndit last month. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed. Higi is the brainchild of serial entrepreneur Michael Ferro, who is also the owner of the Chicago Sun-Times. The company officially...
Baldwinsville, New York-based Simple Admit raised $610,000 from angel investors, according to an SEC filing.
Simple Admit will use the money to enhance staff training capabilities, improve onboarding capabilities, and improve their technology, partly through the creation of an app, which will be done by the second quarter, CEO Mike Horning told MobiHealthNews.
Simple Admit is a web-based program...
Dr. Jordan Shlain on-stage at the mHealth Summit (source: mHealth Summit team)
Mountain View, California-based startup HealthLoop raised $10 million in its first round of funding. The investment round was led by Canvas Venture Fund, an early-stage venture fund managed by Morgenthaler. Subtraction Capital also participated.
"In healthcare today, broadly defined, medicine is a doctor and a...
Video consultation app Doctor on Demand has launched and already raised a $3 million seed round from Venrock, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Shasta Ventures and Athena Health CEO Jonathan Bush.
The app offers patients a portal from which to connect to physicians and is available on iOS and Android platforms. Each video call, which costs $40, can be paid for with a credit...
Healthcare photo sharing app Figure 1 raised $2 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by Version One Ventures and Rho Canada Ventures, a division of New York-based Rho Capital Partners and also included the Investment Accelerator Fund, Ryerson Futures, Accelerated Medical Ventures Founder Zen Chu, and Rypple Cofounder Daniel Debow.
Figure 1 will use the money to improve their product and...
Digital health startups that are targeting the aging population, 50 and over, more than doubled their funding in the past three years, increasing their funding from $413 million in 2010 to $928 million in 2013, according to a report sponsored by AARP and StartUp Health.
The partnership and report development is part of AARP's Innovation@50+ initiative, which aims to increase awareness that...
